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Fall 2021

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three), it

Science and Mathematics

Lives of Quiet Desperation: the Transcendentalists vs. America — LIT2420.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

In this course we will undertake a comprehensive survey of the Transcendentalist movement through a close examination of the major writings from this tumultuous time in America's intellectual life. We will read the major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau), as well as a host of lesser known members of the Transcendental Club (Orestes Brownson,

Literature

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.02

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This is an immersion in “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life.” Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to “look for,” such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,

Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass' newspaper spoke in the 1850s of "walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and

Society Culture and Thought

Makam and Usul — MTH4150.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 2

This music theory course will introduce students to the art of makam, the melodic system of Ottoman Turkish music, and usul, its rhythmic counterpart. The course is designed to assist students in understanding makam (a melodic mode) and usul (a rhythmic cycle) in multiple ways. We will primarily learn through the meshk system, an Ottoman music educational

Music

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 4

Mallet Percussion Ensemble (MPE) creates and develops original compositions for keyboard mallet instruments using a collective improvisation process. The ensemble also learns, arranges, and presents folkloric, classical, modern, and global genres of music. Students will study marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and African balafon. Our coursework connects to music

Music

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. History of the Italian origins of

Music

Mass Affect: Media Culture and Theory — FV2153.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 2

In this hybrid course, we will trace the development of audiovisual media (film, video, and sound art) and hybrid media practices through an interdisciplinary lens. Through screenings, listening sessions, theoretical readings, and discussion, we will investigate core ideas at the center of modern and contemporary time-based work, from experimental practices to the mass popular

Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought Music

Metal Casting : Iron and Aluminum — SCU2211.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting Iron and Aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects or casting from the body. After a form has been produced the

Visual Arts

Metal Workshop — SCU2107.02

Fall 2021

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding (MIG and TIG), forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note that this course may

Visual Arts

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student.

Music

Modern Guitar —

Fall 2021

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

(MIN4224.01) Hui Cox Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student. Categories: All courses , Instrumental Study , Remotely Accessible

Music

Movement Practice: Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

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Credits: 2

This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar with basic ballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following a basic structure and flow of a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break

Dance

Movement Practice: Non-Stop Moving — DAN2358.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

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Credits: 1

When I first started studying butoh at the age of 18, I had a desire to dance anytime and anywhere. On a subway on my way to the dance studio, I practiced my stillness and internal dance without being noticed by anyone. Since then, I believe that dance can happen in any situation and environment by taking various different forms throughout our daily lives. In this class, as

Dance

Movement Practice: The Body Speaking — DAN2352.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

This course integrates various methods of speaking and sounding into our dance and movement practice. Employing multiple improvisational structures, we will access the healing, expressive and artistic possibilities of sound and language as an extension of the body. Additionally, we will look at the work of contemporary artists who engage with language and body-generated

Dance

Movement Practice: The Gentle Warrior — DAN2357.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

Through direct personal experience, students will gain a deeper understanding of the body in motion. We will engage in movement research from a multitude of improvisational, somatic, dance and movement approaches; will delve into using floor patterns and scores for sensing and tracking the body while moving; will discover alliance with breath, floor, imagination, and

Dance

Movement Practice: The Phenomenal State of Permeability — DAN4153.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021

Instructor: Maura Gahan

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Credits: 2

This class, “The Phenomenal State of Permeability” (as coined by Margit Galanter), is a practice of engaging with the senses -- vision, touch, sound, and smell -- to compose movement, objects and space. ‘Warming ups’ will be offered followed by verbal “calls” and “scores” — primarily sourced, but not limited to, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores—as a way of measuring, revealing, and

Dance

Movement Practice: The Principles of Allongé — DAN2279.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This dance class examines the principles of allongé in the dancing body. Allongé is the French adjective used to describe a “position” that is stretched or made longer. Otherwise known as ‘qi’, extension or pointing, allongé allows energy to move from the center of mass (in the pelvis) out through the spine, tail and limbs, extending into the distance (with the imagination) and

Dance

Muriel Spark and the Vanishing Novel — LIT4534.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

Muriel Spark, beginning in the late 1950s, produced a string of fiercely ambitious and savagely witty novels that harnessed the experimental power of the French nouveau roman and skewered the pieties of life in the postwar period of the 20th century. The problem of knowing; the relationship of art to life; the godlike power of authorship; the criminal scheming of flesh-driven

Literature

Music Composition for Dance — MCO4152.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Music Composition for Dance looks retrospectively at collaborative twentieth-century works for ballet and modern dance by Igor Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Duke Ellington, Alvin Ailey, John Cage, Syvilla Fort, Aaron Copland, and Martha Graham, among others. These collaborations helped revolutionize dance choreography and musical methods from their use of tonality, sonorities, texture,

Music

Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 4

An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and

Music

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant” humans

Science and Mathematics

Non-normative Bodies — DAN2351.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

This course will examine representations of non-normative bodies and corporeal difference. Employing concepts from Disability Studies and queer theory as a lens, we will consider some of the paradigm-shifting propositions in these powerful fields of study, with a particular emphasis on the intersectionality of marginalized identities. We will learn to recognize and critique the

Dance

On Sustaining a Practice of Documentation — LIT2002.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The violence enacted on marginalized people is met with a poetry of resistance: art and literature as a political tool accessible to the masses. What service do poetics and artists' practices offer to liberation, memory, and grief? Through a critical analysis of documentary poetic practices within a Black feminist framework, this course seeks to identify a common thread across

Literature

Ordinary Differential Equations — MAT4331.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Differential equations are the most powerful and most pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences. Any time a law is expressed in the form "what happens in the next moment", we have a differential equation; and determining the long-term behavior is the domain of differential equations. Planets, stars, fluids, electric circuits, predator and prey populations, epidemics: almost

Science and Mathematics